Author: John Berryman

There sat down, once, a thing on Henry’s heart Só heavy, if he had a hundred years & more, & […]

Flak. An eventful thought came to me, Who squirm in my hole. How will the matter end? Who’s king these […]

or Amy Vladeck or Riva Freifeld That isna Henry limping. That’s a hobble Clapped on mere Henry by the most […]

He wondered: Do I love? all this applause, Young beauties sitting at my feet & all, And all. It tires […]

He stared at ruin. Ruin stared straight back. He thought they was old friends. He felt on the stair Where […]

I am, outside. Incredible panic rules. People are blowing and beating each other without mercy. Drinks are boiling. Iced Drinks […]

Maskt as honours, insult like behaving Missiles homes. I bow, & grunt ‘Thank you. I’m glad you could come So […]

The taxi makes the vegetables fly. ‘Dozo kudasai,’ I have him wait. Past the bright lake up into the temple, […]

The glories of the world struck me, made me aria, once. Гўв‚”What happen then, Mr Bones? If be you cares […]

Here, whence All have departed orwill do, here airless, where That witchy ball Wanted, fought toward, dreamed of, all a […]

Muttered Henry:—Lord of matter, thus: Upon some more unquiet spirit knock, My madnesses have cease. All the quarter astonishes a […]

Disturbed, when Henry’s love returned with a hubby, — I see that, Henry, I don’t put that down, — He […]

O journeyer, deaf in the mould, insane With violent travel & death: consider me In my cast, your first son. […]

Oh servant Henry lectured till The crows commenced and then He bulbed his voice & lectured on some more. This […]

A shallow lake, with many waterbirds, Especially egrets: I was showing Mother around, An extraordinary vivid dream Of Betty & […]

I met a junior—not so junior—and A-many others, who knew ‘him’ or ‘them’ Long ago, slightly, Whom I know. It […]

28 July Calmly, while sat up friendlies & made noise Delight fuller than he can ready sing Or studiously say, […]

My framework is broken, I am coming to an end, God send it soon. When I had most to say […]

As a kid I believed in democracy: I ‘saw no alternative’—teaching at The Big Place I ah Put it in […]

A hemorrhage of his left ear of Good Friday— So help me Jesus—then made funny too The other, further one. […]